Submitted by: Anonymous
I was a tour guide at the Disney-MGM Studios and my trainer "Steve" was also a trainer for the Backlot tour (trams). He told me that years prior he was doing a tour when they had Norman the cow from "City Slickers 2" in a fenced in area on the tour. One day Sally Struthers paid a visit and happened to be visiting Norman when "Steve" and the tram pulled around to see him.
As they pulled up "Steve" was doing his spiel and it went a little like this:
"Ladies and gentleman if you look ahead on the side of the tram you will see Norman the cow from City Slickers 2. Oh, it also seems we have another visitor today. You may know her from television ladies and gentleman Sally Struthers..........pause.........Sally is the one on the right."
Multiple sources confirmed that it happened.
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Submitted by: Anonymous
Photo By: WDWRon2008
This story has been around as an urban legend but I was working in the area the day it happened. Two larger women wanted to ride Space Mountain and sometimes when handicapped or larger guests ride an attraction it takes a little longer to load them into the ride vehicle.
This particular day two larger women were loaded in the train causing a ride stop due to taking too long to get them situated. Once they were in and on their way they made it to the lift hill inside the ride. As they crest the lift hill a Cast Member in the tower announced "Piiiiigs Iiiiiiin Spaaaaace" in true Muppets fashion. I think it was a college program Cast Member that did not care and was about to quit. Needless to say he was terminated.
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Submitted by: St. Hooch
Photo by: FeLIX
I was working at Space Mountain De la Terre à
la Lune at Disneyland Paris. At this particular time I was positioned at "load" sorting guests into specific groups and lines.
SIDEBAR - Even though Disneyland Paris is
located in France, most Cast Members speak English or 1,000 other
different languages.
While sorting guests into their
proper load queue, I noticed that one lady was pulled from the main line
off to the side. This only usually happens if
there is a problem and they are not allowed to ride. The Cast Member
was explaining in great detail to the guest how this was a roller coaster and that it is
very unsafe for a pregnant woman to ride.
The Cast Member did an
excellent job explaining how not only could she be injured but also the
unborn child. The woman listened and with one simply sentence replied
"...but I am not pregnant."
I then went to break.
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Submitted by: St. Hooch
Photo by: Todd Hurley
One evening during sunset, I was piloting a train on the express beam to the Magic Kingdom. At that time we still loaded four guests in the front cab of the monorail. It was monorail blue if I remember correctly.
That day I experienced one of the most memorable conversations I have ever had with a guest. It was a lady in her early 50's. She looked and reminded me of Flo from the old television show "Alice."
The following is a transcript from that conversation.
GUEST: "OM MY GOD! THAT SUNSET IS JUST GORGEOUS! It's like the sun...like.....it's like a giant ball of fire!"
ME: "Ma'am? It is."
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